Archive for June, 2012

This was my second pregnancy. I used the Labour TENS machine first time in my first labour and felt it very helpful. This time I put my TENS machine on when the contractions started to “bite” and were becoming regular. I started my TENS around 2pm. My beautiful daughter was born at 5.40pm, only 3 hours 40 minutes after. She was born in a birthing pool (water birth), so obviously I had removed the TENS at the last minute before entering the water. I entered the water about 30 minutes before giving birth.

No other pain relief was used. Again the Labour TENS machine was fabulous and I couldn’t have got through my labour without it.

For my second child, the TENS machine was great until Stage 2, when I took it off to push.

For this labour, my third child ended up being posterior and this for me was when the Labour TENS machine was most useful. I used it all the way until the baby was nearly out. It helped immeasurably with the back pain.

This is the second time I have hired a Labour TENS machine, after having a great experience using it for the birth of our first daughter.

Again, I found labour TENS to be fantastic assistance in coping with labour and delivery of our second daughter. During a five hour labour I did not require any other form of pain relief, as the TENS machine provided all I needed.